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THE UNIVERSITY OF THE REFORMATION classical languages (Latin, Greek, and Hebrew) to incoming students. Ihe other two professorships, again in Greek and Hebrew, were, with God’s help, to be filled soon (Table 9). This emphasis on languages is a clear indication of Humanist influence. To the Greek chair a young Tiibingen scholar by the name of Philip Melanchthon was invited in the summer, who arrived with a reform programme, boldly announced in his inaugural speech.” It took a few more years before those proposals could be implemented, and the intervening time left its mark on the project. Table 9 New Humanist professorships in the Faculty of Arts (1518) App. Chair Text (Author) Funding 11 Logic Aristotle (new translation) Elector 16 & 13 Physics and metaphysics Aristotle (new translation) Elector 21 & 18 Zoology and Rhetoric Aristotle and Quintilian Elector 7 Greek [Language and literature] Elector 8 Hebrew [Language and literature] Elector 15 Elementary Latin/Greek/Hebrew [Language] Elector 15 Elementary Latin/Greek/Hebrew [Language] Elector What we see here is an addition of new faculty positions to the already extant pool and, hence, an enrichment of the course offerings in the spirit of Humanism.** What we do not see is a cancellation of the conventional late medieval teaching material or a change in the examination system. The formal requirements remained scholastic. That was not for a lack of initiative, but institutional change needs time. There was pressure mounting both from professors, under Luther’s leadership, and students to do away with requirements that were increasingly felt outdated and detrimental to the study of theology.*® Yet we know that scholastic courses continued unbroken into the early 1520s as did the conferral of degrees.*° Heinz Scheible identified this first stage of reform of the 13 KEEN, Ralph (trans.), On Correcting the Studies of Youth’ in A Melanchthon Reader, New York etc., Peter Lang, 1988, 47-57. 44 All of the chairs established in 1518 were filled by 1520 (UBW 1:99-100, No. 82). 15 Cf. WA Br 1:160, No. 66 (31 March 1518, to Staupitz); 1:174, No. 75 (18 May 1518); 1:196, No. 90 (2 Sep 1518); 1:262, No. 117 (9 Dec 1518); 1:325, No. 144 (7 Feb 1519, all four letters to Spalatin), 1:349-350, No. 155 (23 Feb 1519, to Frederick the Wise); 1:359, No. 161 (13 March 1519, to Spalatin). Georg Spalatin (1484-1545), court chaplain and secretary to the Elector since 1512 as wellas an early and influential supporter of Luther’s cause, was the key contact person at the court for those pushing for university reform. 16 "This can be clearly documented from the sources (cf. e.g. UBW 1:89-118, Nos. 71-109), and the reconstruction has been carefully done by KATHE, Philosophische Fakultät, 70-71 and App., esp. Nos. 1, 3, 11, 13, 14), and SCHEIBLE, Aristoteles, 133-138. See also Table 10, below. + 23 +
